High-pressure hiring tactics to get people to accept internships are widespread. This tells what they are, why recruiters use them and how you can fight them.

By JOE GRIMM
If you have enough talent, connections or luck to get more than one offer at the same time, you’ll have to choose. During internship-offer season, the best and luckiest can get offers within hours of each other. Some offers arrive just hours after candidates commit to someone else.
For most, one offer is fortune [...]

With internships, there is very little room for negotiation. Because an internship is one of your first opportunities to handle a job offer, though, it is a first chance to start learning how to negotiate.

The most difficult career decision you might face can come when you must choose between competing offers. Unfortunately, this is most likely to happen early in a career, when you’re less experienced and have thrown out a lot of lines, trying to catch that internship or first job.